I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I went to graduate film school at NYU, and at first I didn't get a degree, because I took a scholarship that… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I thought The Limits of Control could be interpreted in two ways: as the limits of one's self-control; and as the limits… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I'm not putting down anyone that does look at their work in that way, but for me I am a hardcore amateur. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I like to work with actors that have varied experiences. But I don't choose them because of their experience, I choose them… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in stories. Stories are interesting but I don't think my head works that way. I remember at age 10… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Consequently, I get inspiration from all over the place. But it's not like a calculated thing on my part, or a way… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I like that cartoons are now not only animated drawings, they are a way of doing something: 'That song sounds very cartoony',… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I like actors who just become that person and then react, and Adam [Driver] is completely reactive in that way. So every… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Music just gives me so much energy and inspiration. Music and literature in a way probably influence me more than cinema does… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Those of us who make films try to make something that we're feeling and that we would like. Then we just hope… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I had this idea for a long time to make a film about a poet in Paterson named Patterson. I wanted him… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
America is a very venal place; everything has to be sold there. You can repackage your own s**t and sell it if… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
It meant a kind of real liberation of expression. It embraced amateurism in a way that I still am inspired by. It… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but also with… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Nothing is original.. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
